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Intelligence and intellectuals

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

- Peter, Laurence J.

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The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

Foucault, Michel

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.

Short, Solomon

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

Wilson, Robert

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

Thoreau, Henry David

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

Pound, Ezra

We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Einstein, Albert

When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains.

I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

Kundera, Milan

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Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

Dworkin, Andrea

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It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Hawking, Stephen

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Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

Fromm, Erich

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Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

Lowell, James Russell

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It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The level of the development of a country is determined, in considerable part, by the level of development of its people's intelligence.

Machado, Luis Albert

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The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.

Al-Nuri

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Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life.

Huxley, Aldous

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If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Marx, Karl

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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Woolf, Virginia

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's good to be clever, but not to show it.

Proverb, French

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I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

Fisher, Carrie

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The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

Herbert, A. P.

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You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.

Proverb, Jewish

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

Havel, Vaclav

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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left.

Pound, Ezra

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The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Weil, Simone

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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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You think you are clever until you find out how smart you are

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Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

Chomsky, Noam

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Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered.

Fatmi, Haneef

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I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

Reade, W. Winwood

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Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

Lawrence, D. H.

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To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.

Auden, W. H.